Blood glucose monitoring at home and stress

I felt exactly like this. It did get much easier after the first week or two when my readings came down and I figured out what I could eat. There is safe medication they can put you on if your readings stay high so that’s a possibility too if you’re struggling to figure out the diet side of things. I’d say stick with it and I think you’ll start to find it easier and less anxious soon. After a couple of weeks I barely had to think about it anymore and just stuck to the foods I knew wouldn’t cause my sugars to spike :) good luck x

I got diagnosed a few weeks ago and felt exactly the same - like I wasn't doing the right thing for baby and stressing myself out. I've found helpful to stabilise my blood sugars: eat smaller breakfast, lunch and dinner and eat 2-3 snacks in day (cracker & cheese, veg stick & hummus, green apple and peanut butter). It's best if I go for a walk 10-15 mins/ do arm weights after eating main meal. Also have something high protein before going to bed reduces my fasting (high protein greek yoghurt at least 9g protein/ cheese/ nuts). They also advised me to eat veg, then protein, then carbs at main meal as slows release. It takes enjoyment out of food 😔 but is working.

I had similar experiences, but diagnosed at 26 weeks, now 28 weeks. I’m on medication, but numbers are still a little high on at least 1-2 readings a day even with 30 mins exercise. However I think it’s mostly from either leaving too much time in between or not having enough carbs. What happens is if you don’t have carbs/don’t eat, your liver dumps a load of glucose into your blood stream which can give you a high reading! I would advise to read into it, it’s hard to process but it’s not our fault. Just a result of our hormones. Not sure if you can refuse to test, but I was told some groups of people tend to not monitor, control their diet or exercise. I don’t think they can force you. However, read up on the risks - i.e. if there’s uncontrolled glucose, when baby is born there’s a sudden dip in glucose and high amount of insulin as a result, it can make baby hypoglycemic and therefore poorly for instance. And ofc there are other risks

I was diagnosed at only 8 weeks and I found the whole testing very stressful, I was managing my diet and my readings were still a bit high so I was put on metformin and it was fine for the rest of the time. My boy is 9.5 weeks old now and absolutely perfect x

@Rosie sorry to jump on this post I'm having problems with high morning glucose reading my say ones are all normal and ita driving me mad dows the high protein snack before bed always work for you? (I havnt tried this ) also does eating late affect your readings

Well since I've eaten the high protein at night (particularly good few spoonfuls of high protein yoghurt) it's worked for me. But probably a combination of everything I've adjusted to try and help stabilise. I wouldn't say eating late affects me, but I try not to go too long between meal/snack.

@Rosie thanks for your response I'm going to give this a try tonight I have my day time meals down to an art form lol its just my morning readings...fingers crossed

It is stressful but the more you do it it just becomes normal. If your fasting reading are high it will just mean your body isn’t regulating over night. You may just need a slow acting insulin injection for night time. I had that and it’s worked perfectly. The whole point of the readings is to see what triggers you to have high blood sugar so it does take a little while to work out what suits you / what doesn’t it’s a bit trial and error. For instance I can’t even look at a cereal / oat / seed / bread without my blood sugar going through the roof but I can eat pasta and rice??!!! For me it also depends how things are cooked.. I seem to be able to eat a chips and be fine but not a boiled or jacket potato! If I eat red meat with a meal it definitely helps (I’m not a massive read meat fab so that’s been hard!) It varies very much person to person so just keep trying things and different combinations.

I felt exactly the same. I ended up being switched to a libre 2 sensor instead (slightly less accurate as its in your arm) but testing my finger was causing me to not eat so I didn't have to test it. I was diagnosed around 30 weeks so a pretty late diagnosis. I had lots of fluctuation within my GD, and for me it did result in me having to have a sweep at 38 weeks in the hopes of giving birth (it worked). But I was told the whole way through my results are being monitored by the hospital every time I log a test result and if there was an issue with how high/low it was they'd get in contact that same day. I know it's easier said than done, but try not to worry about it too much. They will be keeping an eye on it all for you, and the added stress won't be good for you or your baby! Good luck, you'll get through it!